Council by-election results from this week and forthcoming contests

Leeds – Morley South

Reform UK 2,119 (36.8 per cent, +29.8 on 2024) Morley Borough Independents 1,450 (25.2 per cent, -12.9) Lib Dems 1,009 (17.5 per cent, +15.9) Labour 634 (11.0 per cent, -20.3) Green Party 313 (4.3 per cent, +4.3) Conservatives 230 (4.0 per cent, -5.6)

Reform UK gain from MBI 

Mid Suffolk – Haughley, Stowupland & Wetherden

Green Party 901 (64.1 per cent, -12.7 on 2023) Conservatives 444 (31.6 per cent, +8.4) Lib Dems 61 (4.3 per cent, +4.3)

Green Party hold 

North Northamptonshire – Higham Ferrers

Reform UK 656 and 556 and 335 (27.5 per cent) Conservatives 559 and 511 (23.4 per cent) Green Party 529 and 449 (22.2 per cent) Labour 264 and 256 (11.1 per cent) Independents 215 and 187 (9.0 per cent) Lib Dems 165 (6.9 per cent)

Reform UK wins one seat. Conservatives win one seat. (This was a deferred election from last month on new boundaries. Reform UK put up three candidates by mistake.)

Nottinghamshire – Mansfield North

Reform UK 3,077 and 2,998 (59.3 per cent)  Labour 1,259 and 1,211 (24.3 per cent) Conservatives 500 and 426 (9.6 per cent) Green Party 292 (5.6 per cent) Trade Unions and Socialist Coalition 62 and 39 (1.2 per cent)

Reform UK win both seats. (This was a deferred election from last month on new boundaries.)

Stroud – Severn 

Green Party 439 (27.8 per cent, +10.0 on 2024) Conservatives 425 (26.9 per cent, -6.6) Reform UK 421 (26.7 per cent, +26.7) Labour 177 (11.2 per cent, -21.3) Lib Dems 112 (7.1 per cent, -9.1) UKIP 5 (0.3 per cent, +0.3)

Green Party gain from Labour 

Forthcoming contests

June 19th

• Adur – Buckingham (2028). Nigel Jenner (Labour)
• Highland – Cromarty Firth. (Independent held)
• Highland – Eilean a’ Cheò. (Independent held)
• North Yorkshire – Eastfield. (Social Justice Party held)
• Sefton – Blundellsands. (Labour held)
• Spelthorne – Ashford Town. (Conservative held)

June 26th

• Basildon – Wickford Park.  (Wickford Independent held)
• Chorley – Buckshaw & Whittle. (Labour held)
• Edinburgh – Fountainbridge & Craiglockhart. (Labour held)
• Greenwich – Shooters Hill. (Labour held)
• Mid Devon – Crediton Lawrence.  (Lib Dem held)
• Rossendale – Whitworth. (Community First held)
• Rother – Catsfield & Crowhurst. (Lib Dem held)
• Sheffield – Stocksbridge & Upper Don. (Labour held)
• South Staffordshire – Great Wyrley Landywood. (Conservative held)
• Stevenage – Bedwell. (Labour held)

July 2nd

• North Tyneside – Killingworth. (Labour held)
• North Tyneside – Longbenton & Benton. (Labour held)

July 3rd

• Bath & North East Somerset – Mendip. (Lib Dem held)
• Durham – Benfieldside.  (Reform UK held)
• Gedling – Calverton. (Conservative held)
• Hammersmith & Fulham – Fulham Town. (Conservative held)
• Nottinghamshire – Newark West. (Reform UK held)
• Powys – Llanidloes. (Lib Dem held)
• Suffolk – Tower. (Conservative held)

July 10th

• Bassetlaw – Ranskill. (Conservative held)
• Hartlepool – Throston. (Labour held)
• Isle of Wight – Wroxall, Lowtherville & Bonchurch. (Independent held)
• Mole Valley – Bookham East & Eastwick Park. (Lib Dem held)
• Rotherham – Keppel. (Labour held)
• Surrey – Woking South. (Lib Dem held)
• Tewkesbury – Northway. (Independent held)
• Vale of White Horse – Botley & Sunningwell. (Lib Dem held)
• Wealden – Horam & Punnetts Town. (Green Party held)
• Woking – Hoe Valley. (Lib Dem held)

July 17th

• Staffordshire – Eccleshall & Gnosall. (Reform UK held)